Utility Week articles from April 2005

Utility Week archives from April 2005

ELECTRICITY; Italy regulator proposes new capacity fees.(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... The Italian energy regulator has proposed introducing new payments for available generation capacity. Under the new arrangements, the transmission system operator would contract capacity for the system. The price paid to generators would...

TELECOMS; BT set to reach 5 million broadband customers.(British Telecommunications PLC)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... BT will this week connect its five millionth broadband customer, a year ahead of forecast. The news indicates that soon nearly half of all internet users in the UK will be connected via broadband. BT Wholesale said it was connecting a...

PAN-UTILITY; NGTtops for responsibility.(National Grid Transco)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... Energy infrastructure group National Grid Transco was knocked off the top spot in the Corporate Responsibility Index 2004 but remained the top performing utility in the annual survey of business practice compiled by Business in the Community....

eNVIRONMENT; MPs demand minister for climate change.(members of parliament)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... by Roger Milne A cross-party group of MPs this week called for the creation of a dedicated minister for climate change in a bid to ensure joined-up and effective government action to combat global warming. The call came from the...

WATER; Tozzi back on takeover trail.(internatioal water businesses)
April 8, 2005... by Steve Hobson The eight water-only supply companies in southeast England are the main targets of a new acquisition vehicle headed by former Mid-Kent Water and Southern Water director Keith Tozzi. Concanteno (Latin for "link...

Conference call: where will we find the energy?(energy demand of UK)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... By the year 2020 the UK will be importing three-quarters of its energy. To examine the implications of this shift from self-sufficiency to import dependency, the Utility Strategy Group in association with Utility Week and the Association of...

ENERGY; Political row delays; Dutch energy reform.(energy sector political aspects)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... by Simon Jones political crisis in the Netherlands has further delayed reform of the energy sector in the country. A Bill unbundling energy suppliers' regional power grids did not receive Cabinet approval last week as expected....

WATER; EDF slams cost of French water law.(Electricite de France)(Energy Bill)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... French electricity giant Electricite de France (EDF) has complained that changes to rules on water quality could cost it e368 million a year and reduce peak electricity capacity by 15 per cent. EDF said the new rules to be introduced in the...

GAS; ESB wins two licences to supply Ulster.(Electricity Supply Board)(Bord Gais Eireann)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... The rollout of Northern Ireland's gas network has passed another milestone with the award of two licences to Bord Gais Eireann for the distribution and supply of gas in areas along the route of the North-West and South-North pipelines. ...

multi-utility; Strong Enel results fail to reassure on future growth.(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... Italian energy giant Enel reported strong 2004 results last week but failed to outline a clear strategy for how it would restore profits after its grid and telecoms subsidiaries are divested. Revenues were up 16.5 per cent on 2003 to e36.5...

GAS; EU referendum casts pall over GDF float.(Gaz de France securities)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... by Zoe Grainge Speculation mounted last week that the French government would delay selling a 30 per cent stake in Gaz de France (GDF) until after the country had conducted its referendum on the European Union constitution. Trade...

GAS; Major deals shore up future UK supplies.(natural gas imports and cross-boundary deals)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... by Roger Milne Two key developments aimed at safeguarding UK energy supplies were announced last week. The first was the news that National Grid Transco has committed [pounds sterling]355 million to triple the capacity of its Isle of...

ENERGY; Endesa joint venture bids to take control of Edison.
April 8, 2005... Spain's biggest power utility, Endesa, and Italian partner ASM Brescia have bid for 100 per cent of Italenergia, which owns 62 per cent of Italy's second-largest generator, Edison. If successful, the deal would be worth an estimated e8 billion,...

WATER; Top brass seen as chief risk.(surveys of water sector investors )
April 8, 2005... by Trevor Loveday Management risk has overtaken regulatory risk as the key concern for debt and equity investors in the water sector, according to a recent survey. Two-thirds of the debt and equity managers quizzed said that...

GAS; BGconcludes [pounds sterling]1bn sale of Kazakh stake.(British Gas PLC)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... Gas exploration and production group BG last week completed the [pounds sterling]1 billion sale of its stake in the Kashagan offshore oil field off the Kazakhstan coast. The company agreed to sell its 16.7 per cent stake in the North...

TELECOMS; Kingston and Thus set to meet targets.(Kingston Communications)(Thus PLC)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... Telecoms operators Kingston Communications and Thus both said they were on track to report full-year figures in line with expectations, despite tough market conditions. Glasgow-based Thus said it expected to deliver its first full year of...

Think global, act local.(global warming and Kyoto Protocol)
April 8, 2005... The government has been talking the talk on global warming. Prime minister Tony Blair has insisted that this area is a priority for the UK as it takes over the leadership of the G8 nations and the presidency of the European Union. Now it is...

TELECOMS; EC sets leased line pricing practice.(European Commission)(leased line markets pricing )(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... The European Commission has laid down "best practice" procedures for member states to set price caps for wholesale broadband leased lines. "The EU single market for electronic communication services is distorted by substantial variations...

Landfill gas tops Roc market.(Renewables Obligation Certificates for landfill gas based energy)
April 8, 2005... Electricity generated using landfill gas has been the largest source of Renewables Obligation Certificates (Rocs) since the introduction of the new financial support regime, according to the government's consultation document on reforming the...

ENERGY; Npower seeks Scottish gains.(market share )(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... Energy supplier RWE Npower has predicted that the new pan-Britain power market which opened last week will enable it to increase its market share in Scotland. Scottish consumers had not switched supplier "because of inertia", the company...

TELECOMS; Analysts spark O2 takeover talk.(O2 Ltd. aquisition bidders)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... Deutsche Telekom and Telefonica have been linked with bidding for UK mobile operator O2, sending the latter's share price soaring last week. Separate analysts' notes from banks Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch highlighted how the German and...

ENERGY; Fuel Direct must be more proactive, says watchdog.(energy policy for debt prevention)(Energywatch)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... Ministers have been urged to recast the government's Fuel Direct scheme to extend its availability and make it a means of debt-prevention rather than just debt management. That call came from Energywatch's Allan Asher at a conference on...

WATER; Pennon profits stay on track.(Viridor Waste landfill gas business profits)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... South West Water owner Pennon told investors last week that it would meet expectations when it reported its full year figures. In a trading statement, the group said the water company "continues to make good progress" and that its landfill...

ENERGY; Watchdog files complaint over billing 'misery'.(Energywatch cases on energy suppliers billing )(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... Consumer watchdog Energywatch this week filed a pan-sector super-complaint about billing 'incompetence' by energy suppliers, the first time this type of challenge has been used against the energy sector. Energywatch filed its complaint...

ENERGY; Belgian plant gives RWE a foothold.(RWE AG joint ventures)(Electrabel S.A./N.V.)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... German multi-utility RWE has entered the Belgian generation market via a joint venture with Electrabel. The two companies will build a 400MW power plant to supply a subsidiary of German chemicals giant BASF in Antwerp harbour. Any surplus...

WATER; Job cut charge to mar Severn Trent results.(Severn Trent Water Ltd. financial results)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... Severn Trent Water said it would have to pay out [pounds sterling]12 million to pay for cutting 350 jobs to hit efficiency targets set by regulator Ofwat in the 2005-10 periodic review. In a trading statement issued ahead of its full...

WATER; South West and Welsh Water fined.(South West Water PLC)(Welsh Water PLC)(improper sewage treatment)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... In the past fortnight South West Water has pleaded guilty and been fined over two separate pollution incidents. In the first case, Plymouth Magistrates ordered the company to pay fines and costs totalling [pounds sterling]6,130 for...

ELECTRICITY; ScottishPower catches a chill waiting for US rain.(lower hydroelectric power declines company sales)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... Energy group ScottishPower has warned that its USsubsidiary Pacificorp will "not make its billion pound target" for the 2005 financial year. It said sales would be closer to [pounds sterling]940 or [pounds sterling]950 million. Pacificorp...

ENERGY; Statkraft eyes Dutch and German plant.(expansion of power generation assets )(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... Norwegian state-owned energy utility Statkraft has revealed that its acquisition strategy for expanding its power generation assets in Europe will focus on Germany and the Netherlands. The company's interest in securing capacity in the...

ENERGY; Electrabel to discuss Suez break-up.(Electrabel S.A./N.V.)(Suez demerging under discussion)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... Belgian's Electrabel has agreed to look into allegations made against its parent company, Suez, by investment fund Knight Vinke. The board will consider the charges at its next board meeting in May. The US investment fund has called for...

ELECTRICITY; TXU payout leaves Drax 'stable'.(credit rating of Drax Power Ltd.)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... Drax Power's credit rating has remained unchanged despite it receiving a [pounds sterling]214 million payment from TXU Europe's administrators on 30 March. Drax Power is expecting to receive its full claim of [pounds sterling]348 million...

WATER; Thames leakage plan blasted by Assembly.(Thames Water PLC upgrade work bill)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... by Trevor Loveday A row has broken out between Thames Water and the London Assembly, with the latter alleging that the water company's upgrade work will cost the capital's householders and businesses [pounds sterling]1 billion and create...

ENERGY; Vattenfall asks to prolong reactor's life.(nuclear power stations life period extension)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... Sweden's Vattenfall has applied for permission to extend the life of its Ringhals nuclear power plant. The application is linked to a e350 million plan by the company to increase the capacity of Ringhals' four 600MW reactors. "The...

ENERGY; Viridian sells IT arm for [pounds sterling]155m cash.(information technology services )(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... Northern Ireland energy group Viridian has sold its software and information technology services arm Sx3 for [pounds sterling]155 million to software and outsourcing firm Northgate Information Solutions. The disposal is expected to result...

TELECOMS; MPs 'unconvinced' by calls to split BT.(British Telecommunications PLC)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... by Zoe Grainge An influential cross-party group of MPs has said BT should not be forced to structurally separate and that Ofcom's proposed equality of network access was the best way forward for the telecoms industry. The House of...

Turning up the gas.(natural gas import pipelines )(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... Six months ago much of the media appeared to be convinced the UK was heading for rolling blackouts and a serious energy supply crisis, particularly if the winter was colder than normal. Last week there were considerable column inches about...

ELECTRICITY; Nuclear extension is better than new-build.(building new nuclear reactors are costly)(Brief Article)
April 8, 2005... by Roger Milne Extending the life of Europe's existing nuclear power stations would be cheaper than building new reactors, top investment analysts have concluded. According to research just published by UBS, investors in major energy...

TELECOMS; Telefonica gets Cesky stake for e2.8bn.(Telefonica S.A.)(Cesky Telecom)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2005... The Czech government has awarded the sale of a controlling stake in the country's dominant fixed-line operator, Cesky Telecom, to Spain's Telefonica. Telefonica offered e2.8 billion for 51.1 per cent stake, a figure well above...

ENVIRONMENT; UK 'serious about climate change'.(Brief Article)
April 15, 2005... UK industry is taking climate change seriously, according to the findings of a recent survey.The study found that 78 per cent of those quizzed thought climate change was an issue for them. More than two-thirds of respondents to the survey...

TELECOMS; ComReg strategic review could bring Eircom split.(Commission for Communications Regulation consultation)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2005... The Republic of Ireland telecoms regulator, ComReg, last week started a wide-ranging consultation on the future of the industry, which could include the break up of dominant telecoms operator Eircom. "Some consideration is given [in the...

PAN-UTILITY; E-billing - you can bank on it.
April 15, 2005... A new e-billing initiative offers consumers Outside the hullabulloo surrounding the takeover of its parent, East Surrey Holdings, Sutton and East Surrey Water has joined banks Lloyds TSB and HSBC in a pilot of an online billing system that...

ENERGY; Bill super-complaint has suppliers 'baffled'.(Energywatch managing billing problems)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2005... by Roger Milne and Trevor Loveday Energy suppliers have voiced "surprise" at the decision by Energywatch to launch a "super-complaint" about billing problems and questioned the timing of the challenge. Duncan Sedgwick, chief...

ELECTRICITY; Commissioner blasts Italian liberalisation.(liberalisation of electricity sector)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2005... by Simon Jones European Union energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs has warned that major investment and new entrants are needed to kick-start the liberalisation of Italy's electricity sector. Piebalgs said Italy's generation sector...

WATER; Tozzi poised to bid for Surrey supplier.(East Surrey Holdings PLC)(Sutton and East Surrey Water PLC)
April 15, 2005... by Trevor Loveday Days after the board of multi-utility group East Surrey Holdings (ESH)recommended to its shareholders a [pounds sterling]453 million bid for the the company by investment group Terra Firma, it emerged this week that its...

Elexon's role clarified.(Letter to the Editor)
April 15, 2005... Sir: I write in response to David Hunter's article 'For Betta or for Worse' (Utility Week, 1 April). The article incorrectly states that Elexon is responsible for the trading market, including the Short Term Power Exchanges. This is a...

TELECOMS; Norway power group eyes broadband firm.(Bredbandsalliansen power companies group)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2005... by Gerard O'Dwyer Bredbandsalliansen, a grouping of six of Norway's biggest regional power companies, has re-entered talks with the Ministry of Communications about buying state-owned broadband network operator BaneTele. ...

PAN-UTILITY; Six utilities top environment league.(Brief Article)
April 15, 2005... Six utilities scored more than 95 per cent and reached the environmental "premier league" in the tenth annual Environment Index, a survey of 178 companies carried out by Business in the Community. A "more challenging" 2004 survey was said...

ENERGY; Eon increases presence in Romania.(Brief Article)
April 15, 2005... German energy giant Eon has bought 24.62 per cent of Romanian regional supplier Electrica Moldova. Under a privatisation deal signed with the Romanian government, Eon's holding will rise to 51 per cent via an immediate capital increase. No...

TELECOMS; Ofcom slams phone down on mis-selling.(Office of Communications)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2005... Communications regulator Ofcom was this week scheduled to publish new mandatory guidelines on mis-selling that will allow it to impose fines of up to 10 per cent of turnover. The new regime will last two years and will be extended if...

New courses to bring energy traders in line.(Brief Article)
April 15, 2005... The Futures and Options Association (FOA) has launched two new compliance courses for trading and operational staff and senior management carrying out oil and energy business. The move follows a review by the Financial Services Authority...

GAS; Eon supplier in court over prices.(Eon Hanse )(Brief Article)
April 15, 2005... More than 50 customers of German gas supplier Eon Hanse have filed a class action lawsuit in Hamburg over what they claim are excessive price rises. The suit is the first of its kind in Germany and aims to force Eon Hanse to publish the...

ELECTRICITY; Irish grid separation set for summer.(Electricity Supply Board divestment)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2005... The divestment of the Republic of Ireland's transmission network from state-controlled power group ESB could be carried out this summer, according to the government. Speaking at the opening of the new grid control room in Dublin,...

ENVIRONMENT; Brussels urged to opt for green heat directive.(renewable energy in European Union policy)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2005... The European Union has been urged to draft a new directive to require at least 25 per cent of heating and cooling to come from renewable sources by 2020. The call came from the European Renewable Energy Council (Erec) and is supported by a...

TELECOMS; Telecom Italia buys French internet firm.(Tiscali )(Brief Article)
April 15, 2005... by Zoe Grainge Former telecoms incumbent Telecom Italia last week expanded its broadband business by buying the French subsidiary of internet service provider Tiscali for e266 million. The purchase of Tiscali's 95 per cent stake in...

GAS; Transco's store arm offers longer deals.(National Grid Transco)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2005... National Grid Transco subsidiary Transco LNGStorage last week added a two-year storage service to its offering, with the first period starting 1 May 2006. The company said it added the longer-term deal to its one-year service in response...

Job seekers trained to cut London's leaks.(Thames Water)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2005... by Zoe Grainge Thames Water has taken advantage of the government's Ambition:Energy programme to train unemployed Londoners in how to find and fix leaks, in a ground-breaking series of courses aimed at tackling widening skills gaps in the...

ELECTRICITY; Brussels to act on competition by 2006.(energy market competition)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2005... The European Union's inquiry into energy market competition will focus on "opaque" power prices, Philip Lowe, director general of DG Competition, said last week. "We will take action as soon as we can, leading in 2006 to cases or...

eLECTRICITY; NDAcommits [pounds sterling]300m for Magnox decommissioning.(Nuclear Decommissioning Authority)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2005... The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is planning to spend almost [pounds sterling]300 million on decommissioning and cleaning up at shutdown Magnox nuclear sites over the next year, according to the newly established organisation's first...

PAN-UTILITY; Labour pledges action over skills.(Exchequer company)(politics)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2005... Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown this week pledged a major drive to improve skills levels if the Labour party wins the next election. He announced plans to create up to 300,000 apprenticeships and promised more help for the sector...

GAS; Experts urge Ofgem to clamp down on leaks.(Office of Gas and Electricity Markets)
April 15, 2005... by Roger Milne Energy regulator Ofgem has been urged to clamp down on methane leaks from the gas network and set mandatory standards to keep them low. The call came from Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute (ECI) in its...

ELECTRICITY; Statnett says windfarms create need for new link.(Brief Article)
April 15, 2005... Norway's power grid operator, Statnett, has claimed it will need to build a new interconnector between Nordland and southern Norway to cope with up to 1.5GW of expected new capacity coming online from planned onshore windfarm projects over the...

pan-utility; Danish sector must stay out of telecoms.(Energistyrelsen)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2005... Denmark's municipally-owned energy companies are to be prohibited from using public funds to buy telecoms assets or invest in broadband telephony infrastructure under a new directive issued by Danish energy markets' regulator Energistyrelsen,...

People on the move People on the move.(Thames Water)(appointments)
April 15, 2005... Craig Anderson has been appointed as Thames Water's commercial managing director. Anderson was previously the company's finance and support services director. Scott Miller has been made senior vice president and general manager, Europe,...

WATER; Two companies fined for pollution.(Anglian Water Services)(Welsh Water)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2005... Anglian Water Services and Welsh Water both pleaded guilty last week over sewage pollution incidents in separate cases brought by the Environment Agency. The former was fined [pounds sterling]6,500 and ordered to pay [pounds sterling]1,814...

TELECOMS; EC approves Spanish aid for broadband.(European Commission)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2005... The European Commission has authorised public funding for the rollout of broadband in rural areas of Spain. The Commission said the move did not contravene European Union state-aid rules because it was not likely to cause an 'undue...

ELECTRICITY; Japanese cash for Romanian plant clean-up.(Japan Bank For International Cooperation)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2005... Romania's largest coal-fired power station is to be fitted with flue gas desulphurisation equipment in a project part-funded by the Japan Bank for International Co-operation. The Japanese bank has signed an agreement with the Romanian...

WATER; Thames' case of bad smells.(Thames Water)(London Borough of Bexley )(Brief Article)
April 15, 2005... Thames Water was this week battling in the Crown Court against an odour abatement notice served by the London Borough of Bexley against the water companies' sewage plants. Thames has already lost an earlier appeal against the notice in the...

ENERGY; Fuel poor are left in the cold.
April 15, 2005... Warm Zones have done little to reduce Given its performance since the last election, this time around, Labour will probably not want to make a great song and dance in its manifesto about its previous commitment to end fuel poverty. The...

PAN-UTILITY; Outsourcing top six lose out to rivals.(outsourcing company contracts go down)(Brief Article)
April 22, 2005... Large outsourcing companies such as Accenture have had their market share eroded by new entrants to the outsourcing industry, according to figures from sourcing advisory firm TPI. In a Quarterly Index global review, TPI said the combined...

ENVIRONMENT; Brussels names green law-breakers.(violations of environmental law)(Brief Article)
April 22, 2005... Five European Union member states face infringement proceedings for a range of breaches of European environmental law. The European Commission has given Germany a final warning over its failure to carry out a full environmental impact...

environment; Czechs agree to cut carbon allocations.(Brief Article)
April 22, 2005... The Czech Republic has acceded to European Commission demands that it reduce its allocations of greenhouse gas emissions under its national allocation plan by 10 million tonnes to 97.6 million tonnes a year. Deputy industry minister Martin...

WATER; Livingstone vetoes desalination plan.(Brief Article)
April 22, 2005... RWE Thames Water's resource planning suffered a serious setback this week when London mayor Ken Livingstone vetoed its plans to build a [pounds sterling]200 million desalination plant on the river Thames to the east of the capital. The...

ELECTRICITY; Court rules for Italy in hydro state aid case.(Brief Article)
April 22, 2005... Charges levied on some of Italy's renewable generators are legal under European Union state aid laws as long as the intention is to counterbalance special privileges enjoyed by those same companies, the European Court of Justice ruled last...

TELECOMS; Brussels takes action on telecoms rules.(Brief Article)
April 22, 2005... The European Commission is preparing legal action against ten member states for failing to transpose telecoms directives into national law. The Commission said the states had infringed European Union rules on electronic communications...

ELECTRICITY; Enel and EDF close to breakthrough.(Electricitee de France)
April 22, 2005... Italian energy giant Enel was this week poised to gain control of generation assets in France and end the long-running dispute between the two countries over access to each other's energy markets. Under the latest deal, Enel would get a...

ENERGY; German energy law delayed in parliament.(Brief Article)
April 22, 2005... Opposition parties have demanded further changes to the latest draft of Germany's energy law, further delaying the establishment of an energy regulator. The Bill is due to return to parliament later this month, but both conservative (CDU)...

ELECTRICITY; Finns lobby for sixth nuclear power plant.(political process of nuclear reactors)(Brief Article)
April 22, 2005... Finnish industry has started a campaign to lobby the government to build a sixth nuclear reactor in the country. Industrial groups claim that a sixth reactor, with an installed capacity of between 1,500MW and 2,000MW, would be the best...

TELECOMS; FT worse off under IFRS accounting.(France Telecom)(International Financial Reporting Standards)(Brief Article)
April 22, 2005... French telecoms giant France Telecom has revealed that its net debt will rise and its operating profit fall with the introduction of the new International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The company said last week that debt for 2004...

GAS; Gazprom and Wintershall sign groundbreaking deal.(OAO Gazprom)(Wintershall AG)(Brief Article)
April 22, 2005... Russian gas giant Gazprom has signed a groundbreaking development deal with Wintershall, the gas supply and distribution subsidiary of German chemical group BASF. Under the agreement announced last week at the Hanover Trade Fair, the...

GAS; Consultancy predicts 'massive' oversupply.(gas based energy supply )(Brief Article)
April 22, 2005... by Roger Milne Britain's current tight gas supply position will switch dramatically to one of "massive" oversupply within a couple of years, according to the latest assessment by consultancy The Energy Contract Company. The...

Regulation scaring investors.(energy sector regulations preventing foreign investments)
April 22, 2005... Increasing regulatory risk co Regulatory uncertainty is scaring off investors, leaving Europe's energy sector facing a struggle to attract the funding it needs to ensure security of supply over the next decade. And volatile fossil fuel...

GAS; IEG is Prime target as Australians move in.(International Energy Group)(Prime Infrastructure)(Brief Article)
April 22, 2005... by Janet Wood Australian network management company Prime Infrastructure has made a takeover bid for International Energy Group (IEG). Its offer of 273p a share values IEG at [pounds sterling]202 million. The offer must be approved by...

electricity; Iberdrola in deal with Portuguese post office.(Grupo CTT Correios de Portugal )(Brief Article)
April 22, 2005... by Ivan Castano The Portuguese post office has signed a deal with Spain's second-biggest power utility, Iberdrola, to sell electricity in Portugal. Grupo CTT Correios de Portugal is the country's biggest postal operator. Under the...

TELECOMS; Kingston re-brands business division.(Kingston Communications (Hull) PLC)(Affiniti rebranded name of Kingston)(Brief Article)
April 22, 2005... Hull-based telecoms operator Kingston Communications has re-branded its business services division after two acquisitions in the past five months. The re-brand constitutes another change for Kingston, which has made a number of divisional...